In the early 00’s, we put DSL on a business card shaped cdrw and carried them around. When it would get too hot outside we’d go to the library and boot into Linux, bypassing the software firewalls they were running and download as much music as we could to a tape drive. It took a few weekends to get the drivers and software right but it worked and was so much faster than our home connections. $5 got you top10 hits from any genre you wanted. We thought we were SO smart like we invented bootlegging.

[–] Rhoerii@lemmy.wtf 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

we’d go to the library and boot into Linux, bypassing the software firewalls they were running and download as much music as we could to a tape drive.

Ugh, I wish I would have been more into a scene like this when I was younger. That sounds so fun. I was mostly into sports and stuff, and that occupied all my time. Now I'm finally getting into the tech world, and I didn't realize how much fun it is.

[–] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 4 points 5 days ago

Reminds me of the internet in college in that same era. The dorm internet was slow.

In less time I could walk across a field a d parking lot tonthe rec center, hook uo to IRC, download a bunch of stuff, copy it to my zip disks, then walk back, than it took to download the same in the dorm.

[–] Rhoerii@lemmy.wtf 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Thanks for this. I have an old machine in my garage, and this is gonna be my weekend project now!

But dear god, I hate how this host talks. He's doing great stuff, but his voice gets higher at the end of every fucking sentence, and and he moves like someone doing a poor imitation of a 1970's game show host. He's definitely using is "youtube hosting" voice. Hate it.

I still subscribed, because he definitely seems to know what he's doing. :)

Does anyone know any other youtubers that do this "linux on old machines" kinda stuff?

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 6 days ago

I'm glad that the video at least gave a shoutout to tinycore, which is also impressive in it's own right

[–] Ghostie@lemmy.zip 9 points 5 days ago

Lil’nux

[–] inari@piefed.zip 4 points 5 days ago

Funny how I knew the channel just from that purple background